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What Animal Crossing Can Teach Us About the Anger of Occupy Wall Street
Don’t get what’s motivating Occupy Wall Street, or any of the Occupy demonstrations worldwide? Look to a video game, writes one blogger. He believes Animal Crossing supplies an allegory for the protesters’ anger, and it involves being pressed into servitude by a debt you had little choice but to acquire. “Animal Crossing was probably the…
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Zelda Concert’s “Contract Rider” Calls for All Sorts of Awesome
We’ve all heard the ridiculous demands in rock star’s contract riders, things like the color of M&Ms, the temperature of the dressing room, the types of condiments for the party sub. Well, tomorrow night is The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Symphony Concert in Los Angeles, and you should see Link’s list of demands. The…
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Should You Buy Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure? Yes.
Mixing together video games and collectible toys, Activision? How very Captain Power of you. As many will no doubt remember, the good captain and his soldiers of the future wound up defending clearance aisles from evil until fading into obscurity. Should a simillar fate befall Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure? It’s time for a Gut Check. Evan…
By Mike Fahey
